The volume of transfers from Kazakhstan through Unistream fell 10 times – Kommersant
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The volume of transfers from Kazakhstan to other countries through the Unistream payment system in August amounted to 91 million tenge. Compared to July, the amount decreased by more than ten times (from 924 million tenge), should from statistics of the National Bank of Kazakhstan. The publication drew attention to her Frank Media. The volume of transfers to Kazakhstan through Unistream in July decreased by 37%, to 1.3 billion tenge.
According to statistics, Russia remains the leader in the volume of transfers to Kazakhstan: in August, 7.5 billion tenge (about 1.6 billion rubles) were transferred from the Russian Federation to the republic. Russia’s share by country by volume of transfers was 33.7%. The top three also included Uzbekistan (12.5%) and the USA (10.9%). The most popular destinations for transfers from Kazakhstan are Uzbekistan (34.1% of total transaction volume), Russia (22.7%) and Turkey (20.9%).
In July, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Unistream to the sanctions list. After this, cooperation with the payment system was suspended by several banks in Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
About the consequences of restrictions – in the material “Kommersant FM” “Unistream is adapting to sanctions”.
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